The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 19
‘They seem to have taken a great delight in painting me since I came to this country,’ she said to herself.
Who acts: pictures, great delight, I, Princess · What happens: seem, take, paint, come, say · To what, where: great delight, me, country, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pictures, great delight, I, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 taken | mark |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 delight | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 delight | amod |
| 9 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 painting | mark |
| 11 | painting | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 delight | acl |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 painting | obj |
| 13 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 herself | case |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | pictures = picture | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive · perfect | pictures = picture not said here | a great delight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | paint | gerund | a great delight not said here | me | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | I | this country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | Princess | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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